Inna Sheshkil
Inna Yuryevna Scheschkil, married Ivanova, sometimes called Irina Scheschkil known (Russian Инна Юрьевна Шешкиль, later Инна Юрьевна Иванова; born June 20, 1971 in Makinsk, Oblast Aqmola the former Soviet Union ) is a former Kazakh, later Belarusian biathlete who today lives in Bashkortostan.
Inna Scheschkil began at a young age with the competitive sports, her father was a coach at a sports school in Makinsk. She attended a sports institute in Almaty, where her talent was discovered for biathlon. After less than three years, she managed the 1991 jump in the junior national team of the USSR, even before the collapse of the Soviet Union. She was appointed against great odds as a non-Russian of the few athletes in the team of the USSR and subsequently the Commonwealth of Independent States and participated in the Biathlon World Championships in 1992 for the team in the CIS. In the team competition she won in Novosibirsk along with Jelena Belova, Anfisa Reszowa and Svetlana Petschorskaja behind the team from Germany, the silver medal. In 1994 she made her debut starting for Kazakhstan in the Biathlon World Cup. In Ruhpolding she finished 44th in the individual ranking up to the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, she was launched in four World Cup races without having obtained taking into account issues. In the individual it reached # 29 A a sensation next surprise was the sprint race Scheschkils. Only 3.9 seconds, she missed the bronze medal behind Walentyna Zerbe, a fall just before the finish prevented to win a medal. It should still be the biggest single success in the career of Kazakh. At Holmenkollen in Oslo she won her first World Cup points in 24th place in singles and as 21 in the sprint at the start of the World Cup season 1994/95. Shortly after, she came as Sprint Fifth in Osrblie again among the top ten. In the following years, the Kazakh placed again in the points, but then sat for the birth of her daughter a year with the Biathlon from. In the first Summer Biathlon World Championships 1996 in Hochfilzen the Kazakh won the bronze medal in the sprint race. In the Biathlon World Championships 1997 Scheschkil reached at a single workstation 21 in the sprint number 48, with the team twelfth grade and with the Kazakh Season # 6, which was seen as a big surprise. In 1998, she competed in Nagano for the second time in the Olympics. After a 54th place in the individual it was 20th in the sprint and eleventh in the relay. First, they had announced after the Olympic Games in Nagano her career end after there had been differences with the newly appointed coaching staff of Kazakhstan. She continued her career but continued without a coach and won the overall title of the European Cup of the season 1998/99, also three individual races, was second six times and third twice. By the end of the season she went to Kazakhstan and then moved to the Belarusian Association. The change followed mediation by her friend Svetlana Paramygina together with her husband Valeri Ivanov, also biathlete. The newly appointed coach of Belarus, Alexander Popov, promising athletes picked from the successor states of the Soviet Union, the Belarusian team. However Notable successes did not reach Scheschkil in the World Cup. At the end of her career Scheschkil launched in Zakopane at the Biathlon World Championships 2000. In the sprint she was 13, in pursuit of the 15th with the season they missed out in fourth for career end just a medal. Once again it came to differences with the Belarusian leadership team under Nikolai Zakharov, she finished her career permanently. Scheschkil the title of Honored Master of Sports was awarded. She has a daughter with her husband Valeri (1996 ), lives retired and lived until 2010 in the Closed City Meschgorje.
Biathlon World Cup rankings
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